European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday May 27,1987 a photo Andrew Jackson York Center shakes hands with mayor Jacques jul argot while maj. Gerald York looks on. French Village erects Monument honouring Wei hero Alvin York i Intel cheery France a Andrew Jackion York stood on a Grassy Knoll in the Argonne Forest looking toward the spot where his father be came the most celebrated hero of world War i by single hand edly taking on a nest of 35 machine guns. This would be the Little Creek that he talked about. And there s where he crossed around to slip up behind them said York who travelled from pall mall tenn., for the memorial Day unveiling of a Monument to his father sgt. Arvin Cullum York. About 200 people including . Ambassador Joe m. Rodger gathered in this Village 150 Miles East of Paris for the dedication of a simple Bronze plaque set in a polished Granite base. The plaque inscribed in French and English and Setin front of the tiny town Hall details the feat that earned York the highest French and american military decorations and made him a Folk hero at Home. Aimed with his Rifle and pistol his courage and skill he silenced a German battalion of 35 machine guns killed 25 enemy soldiers and captured 132," it reads. Ciarav Cooper starred in a 1941 movie about York who died in 196-4. I d get asked if i was Gary Cooper s grandson said Gerald York 39, a . Army major stationed in Huntsville ala., who attended the dedication. Gerald York said he did t really know How famous his Grandfather was until a Grade school teacher showed him an encyclopedia entry about him. Despite his Fame As a fighter Alvin York nearly wound up missing the War. A fundamentalist Chris Tian he registered As a conscientious objector an asked for non combat duty. His commanding officer knowing of York s skill As a Marksman agreed but asked him to go to the Backwoods family farm and think it Over for a few Days. He was t aiming to come and fight said his son who at 57 is Tail and weathered looking. Sonic people say he resembles his father. But he went up on the Hill and thought about it. He figured he was t any better than  did t know whether he could kill anyone or not. He did t know whether he could take a  York finally decided he ought to do whatever he could to get the War Over. On monday a brass band drawn from nearby Vil Lages raised a ragged but enthusiastic chorus of Mili tary marches As the Tennessee lag that had covered the Monument was removed. Flowers were Laid at the base giggling French schoolchildren waved american flags and the villagers repaired to a Small auditorium to drink Champagne. "ii1 very fitting to remember him ru.-ix-," said rus sell Hippe chairman of the Tennessee historical com Mission which decided to establish the memorial to Honor York in the 100th year after his birth. It was the first visit to France for York s son who said he had wanted for years to Sec Mont York the name the villagers gave to the Hill behind Chatel Cheh Ery where Alvin York made history. It s pretty country just like Back in Tennessee Andrew York said. And  world today 31 millionaires vying for bahamian Assembly Nassau. Bahama up1 thirty one of104 candidates for Bahama s parliament Are millionaires and prime minister Lyndon pin. Doing has a net Worth of i million according to disclosure statements. The statements entered in the official govern ment Gazette and published monday in the Nas Sau guardian newspaper showed that the list of candidates for As seats running in the june 19 elections for the House of Assembly includes i millionaires on Pindling s progressive Liberal party ticket. Thirteen arc affiliated with he free National movement of ice Ndal Isaacs and two Are inde pendent candidates. In the 49th Seal. Finance minister Arthur Hanna is running unopposed in the Eastern Section of new Providence. Pindling declared a net Worth of 12 million. He has an annual salary of 1102,000. Norwegian says Kab harassed him at Airport Oslo Norway up a former member of parliament said he was harassed by  offi cers sunday As he was about to leave the soviet Union where he interviewed dissidents. Han Olav Tungesvik 51, told the Oslo daily newspaper Vart la id on monday that he bad been ordered to strip naked and had been subjected to harassment by seven Kab officer it the Airport in Leningrad .s.r., after the discovered in his Luggage five letters written by soviet dissidents. Seven Kab officers examined the entire lug Gage and found the letters which they confiscated Tungesvik told the daily. Pole caught hiding in West bound truck Munich a a Young pole who hid inthe Back of a West German truck headed Home was caught at the Border Between Poland an East Germany West German police said. While the West German truck Driver was us inf a break the pole Cut open the Tarpaulin Cov ering the truck s Load area slipped in and sewed up the Slit from inside the truck police said monday. Polish Border guards probably warned by someone who had seen the break in searched the truck May 20 at the Border near the East German City of Frankfurt on the Oder and found the Sto away bavarian police said. The truck Driver from Bremen West Ger Many was allowed to travel on after question ing according to bavarian police. Nepal  . Gift of 4 asian Rhino calves Katmandu. Nepal up president Reagan and the american people have received a Gill four asian Rhinoceros calves from King Birendra. The one horned rhinos three females and Amale were presented monday by Birendra Khun Jill the nation s Secretary of forests to Leon j. Weil . Ambassador to Nepal. Nepal use officials said two of the females willbe shipped by air to the National zoological Park in Washington . While the other female and male will be sent to san Francisco. 4 May have sold Azacs data paper reports Tokyo a technical data on a new Boeing Azacs radar plane May have been part of the information four alleged japanese spies sold the soviet Union the newspaper yom Iuri said monday. Police found copies of a manual for maintaining inspecting and flying the plane in the Home of Masateru Tachibana 59, a military writer and former employee of a . Air base the newspaper reported. Tachibana and three other men were arrested May 19 on suspicion of spying for the soviet Union and China. Yom Iuri publishes papers in both Jap anese and English and the  versions gave different types of radar planes As the alleged target of espionage. The japanese version said the plane is a new Boeing e-3c, a remodeler version of the e-3a airborne warning and control system aircraft based on the Boeing 701. But the English version called it a Boe ing e-3c Hawkeye and said it was a fighter. Boeing makes no Hawkeye but Grumman docs. Yom Iuri officials said later the English version was incorrect and the plane was a Boeing of the sentry series. Earlier unconfirmed reports said the four men suspected of espionage sold in formation on the . Of Lei fighter. Hiromi Date 62, a Counselor at the private China technical Center was arrested after trying to pass documents to . Aksenov of the soviet Trade office at a Western Tokyo Park police reported. Authorities said Date and other Mem Bers of the group sold . Military documents to Aksenov and Igor a. Sookov a first Secretary at the soviet embassy for 100 million yen $714,286yom Iuri reported. Hiroshi Osumi 65, an employee in the technical Library of the . Yokota a in Western Tokyo was picked up for allegedly Healing technical documents according to the newspaper. It said Tachi Bana and Sadao Gotoh 60-year-old president of Sanko ltd., a trading com Pany doing business with China were arrested on charges of buying stolen goods. Aksenov and Sookov returned to the soviet Union last week